Empire Records and Bidet: 9/28

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After Ethics, Jamie opens up Empire records and starts sorting all the albums from being in alphabetical order into genre and undoing all of Chad's careful work.

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie decided to stop by and visit Jamie at work. After a quick stop at J,GOB for sandwiches and drinks, made her way to Empire Records.

"Hey," she greeted, putting the bags and cups on the front counter. "You too busy for lunch?"

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"Never," Jamie grinned. "Why do I deserve a free lunch?"

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"You probably don't," Marie teased. "But I haven't really spent any time with you this week and I figured your boss couldn't get too mad about lunch."

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"Yeah, she can be pretty cool. I barely ever see her though. I think I could probably not show up to work and she wouldn't care," Jamie said unwrapping a sandwich. "Do anything fun without me this week?"

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"It's been a pretty quiet week," Marie told him. "Mostly just been busy with classes. And I joined the Supernatural Support Group that Bel started. We had our first meeting the other day. What have you been up to? Earned detention yet this week?"

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"Me? Detention? I'm hurt you would even think that," Jamie said grinning. "Just because I got detention every week in the semester thus far doesn't mean I got detention this week."

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Marie raised an eyebrow. "You didn't answer my question."

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"Boy this is a really good sandwich!" Jamie said in a swift conversation change.

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"Glad you like it," Marie said, shaking her head. "So what have you been up to this week?"

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"We had our first meeting of the double Kappas last night," Jamie replied, "And I went to fencing club. Other than eat pizza and trade sheep puns with Peter Parker not much else happened."

Jamie paused for a second and decided to go back to the issue he was dodging. "Does it bother you that I get detention so much?"

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"You joined fencing club?" Marie asked. "I had no idea you were interested in that."

She shrugged. "No, not really. It's just... it's going to end up on your permanent record and I'd hate to see it keep you from getting into college or something."

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"I had a duplicate who learned how to fence a ways back," Jamie explained. "I thought it would be a good way to keep my skills up. As for college? I don't know. Really I can go anywhere to learn anything and do everything. In fact I think I have a dupe going to college right now."

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Marie frowned as one of the memories she'd pulled from him tickled the back of her mind.

"Don't you want to experience things for yourself though?" she asked.

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"I do," Jamie replied. "When the duplicates come back to me I absorb their memories and skills. So when I go back home to New York I can still have my dupes find me there and I can gain their experiences."

Jamie paused for a second and a worried look croses his face. "That is if my home is still there."

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She wanted to argue that absorbing the memories wasn't the same thing, but the worried look on his face seemed more pressing.

"What do you mean?" Marie asked, touching his hand.

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"Yesterday in computer class we were googling ourselves," Jamie explained. "For some reason I couldn't find anything about me or my friends. Or at least anything that matched where I used to live. Instead it came back with results about an old bad guy being one of the rulers of the world and any calls or e-mails to my friends don't work. It's like someone flipped a switch and they just disappeared or changed."

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"Oh, no!" Marie said, squeezing his hand. "When was the last time you talked to them?"

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"Couple of weeks. I handwavily talked with Guido right after the whole coma thing and... Well I just assumed that they were busy getting their business going," Jamie said shaking his head. "Nadia said that there was probably just something weird going on between our two dimensions where we couldn't contact each other but still... weird."

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"That's where the dupe that helped me was, right?" Marie asked.

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Jamie nodded. "Yeah. I was going to send one back to the institute but now I don't know if he would make it there or back."

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"You think it would be worth trying?" Marie asked. "Or too dangerous?"

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"I don't know yet," Jamie said. "I'm not an expert on interdimensional travel. I may give it a few more days before I try anything else."

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"Let me know if you need anything," Marie said, squeezing his hand once more before removing it and picking up her sandwich.

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"I will. Everything going okay for you?" Jamie asked feeling a little guilty for bringing the whole lunchdate into emoland.

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Marie smiled. "Yeah, surprisingly so," she said. "I think we have our first student council meeting tomorrow."

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"We do? I haven't checked my e-mail yet," Jamie replied. "Is there anything you'd like to present tomorrow so we can have a united front?"

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"Nothing I can think of," Marie replied. "Have you even met the other freshmen rep?"

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"Nope, who was it again?" Jamie said after swallowing a bite of his sandwich. "I do have a resolution to propose for the student council. Want to hear it?"

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"John something," Marie replied. "Sure, what's your resolution?"

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"Just that Marie D'Ancanto is the best girlfriend ever," Jamie said with his doofiest grin. "What do you think?"

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Marie blushed. "I don't think that will pass," she said. "Since no one but you would know."

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"Then we need to form a political action committee to inform the public!" Jamie said earnestly. "This is something the people should know."

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"I think I'm happy with just you knowing," Marie said, still blushing.

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"Then again if the general public knew about your awesomeness I'd probably have to fight them off by the hundreds," Jamie said thoughtfully. "Maybe we should keep it a state secret."

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"Or I could steal your powers and make more of me," Marie joked.

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Jamie laughed. "But then I would be coma boy again and you'd be too sad to hit on all the other boys."

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"Oh yeah," Marie said. "Guess we'd better keep it between us then."

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Jamie reached over to take Marie's hand. "I can live with that."

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Marie grinned. "Me too," she said.

"I need to go dress shopping for next week."

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"And I need to pick up my powder blue leisure suit," Jamie said with a sly grin.

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"Now, should I try to find something powder blue so we can match or should I find something that would compliment it instead?" Marie asked, really, really hoping he was kidding.

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"Well what goes with powder blue?" Jamie asked. "Or should I just go with the basic black suit?"

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"Basic black might be easier for me to match," Marie said.

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Jamie gave a mock-weary sigh. "All right. But only for you."